International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
Tina, Kamal Kishore, Mahendra Kumar and Manju

abstract
Adolescence in the stage of growing up and growing from childhood at the same time, the child develops physical, social, mental, emotional, cognitive, and imaginary power and is the basis of adult life. It is very important to have menstruation in girl in adolescence because at this time their body develops and there are many changes in the body. It is very important to have these changes it show that the development of their body of going well. First objective of this research was to studying knowledge and practice related to menstrual hygiene in teenage girls. Second was to adolescent girls assess problems during menstruation. Methodology adopted for the current research work was done on 100 school girl (10-19 years) in the gram panchayat hathnoda of govindgarh panchayat samiti, who was elected in a proclaimed manner of Jaipur district of Rajasthan. Based on the results of the current study, 61% of the teenage girl used to get menstruation and 35% of the teenage girl used sanitary napkins during menstruation and 45% teenagers used clothes during menstruation. In the conclusion of the study, it was found that the teenage girls were not aware of menstruation and menstrual hygiene. During menstruation, she could not discuss this subject easily with anyone, she felt ashamed and considered the bleeding during menstruation dirty.